Sportsmeat

Last night, the 'Nator and I checked out the grand opening party for Solid Threads, a store on First Street in Hoboken run by an old friend of the Sportsmeat radio show, El Gwiz, the man who called in to our first show to assess Shawn Kemp's "meat value." The store is great -- when in the Hobe, check it out -- and Gwiz also has a thriving web business at solidthreads.com. The grand opening was a mix of twentysomething-classy and college-holdover fare: brie and crackers next to a bowl of Devil Dogs, still in their wrappers, bottles of wine next to a cooler of Pabst Blue Ribbon cans. They had a two-man band in the back and even broke out cupcakes with T-shirts on them ("Look, they're little T-shirts"). Gwiz, well done and good luck.